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Hey look, here’s $360,000

Wright has repeatedly told the court that he can’t access any of the bitcoins he mined before 2013. That wasn’t entirely true.

Wright’s attorney, Zaharah Markoe, sent Kleiman’s lawyer Velvel Freedman an email with addresses of 50 bitcoins Wright had forgotten.

It’s a view into the early days if bitcoin. Mined at 1:34 p.m. on April 18, 2009, he was able to do it on a simple laptop.
It’s sort of like that time you found $20 in your winter coat pocket.

Markoe adds that these bitcoins were mined on Wright’s personal laptop, so they were not put into the Tulip Trust